Reviews and Comments

Not my usual read but entertaining enough.

Wonderfully informative and heartbreaking

An illustrated history of the civil rights movement and an inspiration to keep up the fight.

I started this book and stopped it…and picked it up again two months later. I enjoyed the writing and the complex emotions, but the story was very dark. You need to be in an emotionally stable place for this one.

Not as good as Ninth House, but still a fun read.

I would hope that I would be the one with the courage to resist. I’d settle for being the one who resists privately but keeps up a front of being complicit. Sadly, I know the fear of losing my child would be too much for my heart to bear so I suspect I would be the neighbor who keeps her mouth shut in the face of injustice.

“One moment of shock enables an eternity of submission.”

I’m a slow reader so I was surprised when I finished the book last night. A quick read for a book that is not plot-driven. Interesting look at familial relationships, but one I couldn’t necessarily relate to being the youngest. But I bet my siblings could

Grief is a universal experience but it’s also a topic we tend to avoid as to not upset anyone. For the author to share her grief of suddenly losing her husband with her readers was such a relief to me. There seems to be a secret timer set on how long you can grieve before you’re expected to “move on.” You can only talk about the good times, not the pain their absence has caused. I could see where this book would help anyone suffering from a loss.

The illustrations made this short “how-to-fight-fascism” book all the more creepy.

This was a fun read that kept me engaged. It wasn’t particularly original, but it was very well-written and I loved Beatriz and Andres